Category Archives: Misc

misc: useful links

Here I will collect some useful links (I am not responsible for the content of those pages) PC Tools: http://www.jgoodies.com/downloads/jdiskreport/ – A good tool to see which folder needs which space, or better – where is my HDD space gone??? Networking … Continue reading

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mpls: layer3-vpns, pe-ce routing protocol – rip

Hello everyone! Today I am going to show how to use a variety of routing protocols to be used as PE-CE routing protocol when you are connected to a MPLS VPN service provider or when you act as a provider. … Continue reading

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mpls: ldp neighbor relationship with md5 password authentication – part 2

Hi again and welcome to the second part of the LDP authentication section. This time we will configure some errors to have a look on the he behaviour of the routers and what we can do to troubleshoot it.behaviour of … Continue reading

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misc: optimzation in the layout of the blog labs

Hi everybody! I recognized that my scenarios with the cisco specific outputs the output mostly looked like crap. This way: Router#sh ip route Codes: C – connected, S – static, R – RIP, M – mobile, B – BGP D … Continue reading

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mpls: pseudowire emulation / any tansport over mpls – interconnecting sites via layer 2 – (part 1)

Hi everybody! Today I am going to introduce a new challenge that takes care of MPLS and pseudowire emulation. Challenge: – connect two sites via a MPLS VPN Backbone at layer 2 Given: – a “SP” network without MPLS capabilities … Continue reading

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mpls: simple and advanced inter-vrf routing/leaking

Hello everybody! Today I will spend some time in demonstrating how to route between separate VRF instances on a local router. Special prerequisites: – Understanding of VRF lite Topology: Our topology exists of three routers. Quite simple for the beginning … Continue reading

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misc: new iphone 5 – new food from old dishes

Hi! Just watched Apple´s new keynote and I dont know…in my eyes somehow Apple has lost its magic. I mean especially the new iPhone. In my eyes…absolutely nothing interesting new. Here is what they announced with the new phone. The … Continue reading

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installation and configuration of cisco secure acs 5.3 (vmware) – part 6

Hi again! I got reminded that I obviously forgot to write part 6 of the Secure ACS implementation…well thats correct. Just forgot it :). But here it is! So what we now have is two standalone Secure ACS 5.3. Each … Continue reading

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Thanks for over 25.000 views!

Just wanted to thank you for a lot of views in the last weeks and months. I hope you enjoy the reading. Also thanks for your constructive comments you are making! Keep going! Regards! Markus

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installation and configuration of cisco secure acs 5.3 (vmware) – part 5

Hi again! In this part we are configuring a user within the secure ACS to log in to a router. To configure user accounts for administering netwok devices you need to do the following steps. By the role-based architecture of … Continue reading

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